论看不见的人中的象征手法.doc

毕 业 论 文 Symbolism on Invisible Man 论《看不见的人》中的象征手法 教务处 制 Abstract: Invisible Man, written by Ralph Waldo Ellison who is a famous black writer, is a distinguished novel on an African-American’s struggling in the tough and adverse society, from blindness to vision, from darkness to light and from losing to identifying himself. Ellison told us about a young black peoples fighting story in breaking the edge of race and region rather than in criticizing on racial discrimination. The theme of novel is that the hero seeks the identity of his own. What Ellison presents to us is not only an African-American’s pursuing his own identity but an anguish process of mans quest for identity in this dehumanizing and absurd society of racial discrimination, the mental crisis in western countries. By using the method of documentary, exemplification, quotation and comparison, the paper tries to analyze the application of symbolism on Invisible Man through visual symbolization, structure symbolization and ceremony symbolization and so on to discuss how the author used symbolism to deepen the topics and to learn Ellisons writing skills. Symbolism is throughout the whole novel. In addition, by analyzing the symbolic meaning and symbolic skill used in the book, we can demonstrate how the symbols contribute to developing the theme. The writing style was changing with the development of the story, which extended the space of language and imagination to make us speculate and ruminate. The social phenomenon and its characteristics of America gave us a better understanding of western culture. Key words: African-American, Invisible Man, symbolism Contents 1. Introduction 1 1.1 Introduction about Ralph Waldo Ellison 1 1.2 Introduction about Ralph Waldo Ellisons works 1 1.3 Introduction about Invisible Man and its major theme 1 1.3.1 Invisible Man 1 1.3.2 Major theme of Invisible Man 2 2. The concept of symbol 3 3. Symbolization 3 3.1 Visual symbolization 3 3.1.1 Symbolism meaning of black and